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Seeing Things Politically

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Gil Bailie

“… we see a growing incapacity in Europe to accept political disagreement and run the risk of electoral choice. The tyranny of political correctness is, by the way, the most striking manifestation of this fear of disagreement. The pre-democratic counsel … Continue reading →

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Ties That Bind vs individualism?

Posted on July 4, 2016 by Randy Coleman-Riese

Some thoughts on the 240th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America. The ideas underlying the democratic principles in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States had their earliest known instantiation in the … Continue reading →

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Democracy devoid of the sacred

Posted on November 19, 2015 by Randy Coleman-Riese

The desacralizing effect of the Jewish and Christian revelation which René Girard so masterfully explicated is not to be confused with an ideological agenda which enshrines in the place of meaningful moral and political norms saccharine bromides — tolerance and … Continue reading →

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